As seven alien races struggle to co-exist in an uneasy alliance, the Inter-Stellar Union sends Union Guard agents on missions to preserve the crucial balance. These specialized operatives must do what regional security cannot, dealing with smugglers, pirates, terrorists, and even greater challenges in order to bring stability to a universe that needs it desperately. Without the Union Guard, the races will not be prepared to face a looming alien threat they can only hope to defeat together.

Monday, November 21, 2016

French Game Club Mission Report (part 1)

The French gaming club, Les
Petit Joueurs (“Little Gamers”) has recently played the “Egg Drop”
mission in Solar Echoes. The mission involves intercepting an operation
to smuggle Chiraktis eggs and then posing as the smugglers to determine
where the eggs were being moved to. Chiraktis are known for trying to
illegally expand their kind outside their own borders, and their actions
violate the Non-Proliferation Addendum of the Interstellar
Union. When the team finds the smuggler's ship, the Reln, Prof.
Zholtaân, decides to communicate with the ship’s captain. He attempts a
bluff to pretend he is a young and inexperienced captain, that the
communication array of his ship is damaged. The high persuasion score of
Prof. Zholtaân also allows him to convince the smugglers that he is the
nephew of a rich Reln merchant, and he offers part of his cargo in
exchange for repairs. Once they are onboard, Prof. Zholtaân, flanked by
the Archaeloid Oosnubu, negotiate with the smugglers, who ask for all
their cargo for the repairs. They are distracted by the cunning words of
the Reln and the imposing presence of the Archeloid, and fail to spot
the third member of the team, Khassim, the Krissethi infiltrator,
stealthily moving between the crates of the cargo bay, arriving suddenly
at the captain’s back to hold him at gun point. Khassim uses his
intimidation advantage to convince the captain to order his crew to
surrender and get onboard the XR-Celthrin without resisting. Once the
smugglers are placed into custody within the ship’s cabins, the team
reveals they are in fact UG agents, and proceed to a quick
interrogation, as well as a search of the crew and cargo.